On 17-18 October the 2nd meeting of the Erasmus+ Daphne European Project “Fatima2: Preventing Honor Related Violence against women through Social Impact Projects and Peer Learning led by young men”, in which the Educational Organization DIMITRA participates, took place in Rome.

FATIMA2 is developed from the idea and the work started with FATIMA. FATIMA focused on building the capacity of NGOs to address Honour Crimes. The overall objective of FATIMA2 is to contribute to ending Honour Crimes against women by promoting capacity building for attitude and behaviour change among men in social and cultural contexts where women are most at risk, particularly in segregated migrant communities.

Read more …

Last week our WES project coordinators met in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, to discuss the work done so far and plan together the next steps of the project.

Stay tuned!

We were in Seville a few days ago to meet all the partners from Spain, Andalusia, Greece, Bulgaria and Italy. We learnt a lot about the good work practices on equality of the La Rinconada City Council, one of the pioneering public entities in Spain in working towards equality. We are training from a multidisciplinary, psychological, sports, inclusion, legal point of view to create tools that improve the lives of women and our societies and that facilitate the creation of the final results of this project that will be at our disposal available to all citizens for their use.

The place was very welcoming and it was an important human experience of growth.

Partners met in person to set up the fundamentals of the project towards new steps for new methodologies and tools aimed at empowering women in vulnerable situations.

Read more …

On 26.01.2024, the second online meeting of the project Online Community of Practice took place. It was called Good practices on professional development of educators on Gender Based Violence (GBV) related topics.

A Community of Practice (CoP) is broadly understood as a group of people who share a common concern, a set of problems, or an interest in a topic and who come together to fulfil both individual and group goals, caring about the same real-life problems or hot topics, and who on that basis interact regularly to learn together and from each other. The project team focused on Gender Based Violence and mostly on Honour Related Violence decided that our CoP is a group of people that collectively work to master, achieve or solve something GBV and HRV related, being instruments for fostering collaboration between internal and external stakeholders for optimal achievements by learning, sharing expertise and co-developing solutions for cases of Honour Related Violence.

Read more …